You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
D. H. LAWRENCEYou can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
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Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff’s edge, like Sappho into the sea.
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The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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